Dunder Mifflin, for those of you not in the know, is the fictional paper company portrayed in the TV show "The Office" Until this year the manager of this company was a character named Michael Scott, who I'm betting was a little too uncomfortably close at times to what you go through in the real world. Once in the show Michael Scott didn't quite grasp the importance of a celebration of the Indian holiday of Diwali, telling his girlfriend it was a "costume party' The girlfriend showed up as a cheerleader, to much awkwardness

Today my real pharmacy manager told my supertech, who is of Indian origin, that she should wear a sari and a bindi to the store's Halloween party. Saris and bind's are generally not considered costumes, and would produce much awkwardness to be used as such, but that did not phase the Pharmacy Manager, who brought up the idea several times